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It just hit me that running Nouveau will probably wear you fan out compared to the proprietary driver, all in an attempt to avoid over heating They better get that fan controll working automatic soon

Well, if they can handle manual fan control + thermal sensors, I don't see why an automatic fan management mode couldn't be slapped together based on temperature thresholds (either system or user-defined).

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Well, if they can handle manual fan control + thermal sensors, I don't see why an automatic fan management mode couldn't be slapped together based on temperature thresholds (either system or user-defined).

Right. The only reason the code has not been pushed is .... that I didn't have the time to fix my patch following the nouveau maintainer's comments before going on vacation. The code is available but won't be merged in Nouveau until I get back home which should be in a few days.
Hopefully, the thermal work will be almost done for most cards when I'm done merging the patches.

However, please test the code extensively. We never know what strange clock tree nvidia could have introduced on some chispets!